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...Andrew Ting '83, president of the Asian American Association (AAA), said yesterday that although his group will still work for a minority representation clause in the new Undergraduate Council, openly backing minority candidates would be self-defeating...
...rift between juniors and seniors and younger members of the group who, the older ones contend, don't yet understand the history of minority groups on campus. Thus they tend to be somewhat more "conservative" than many upperclass members. In the Asian American Association (AAA), for example, president Andrew Ting '83 says that last year freshmen turned out in large numbers at AAA meetings, and tended to vote more conservatively than the older members. Ting says this is a major reason the AAA did not join most groups last spring in urging a "no" vote on the student constitution...
...most leaders say that this particular bunch is not any more inherently conservative on minority issues--just less familiar with them. "You get a lot more harassment at the freshman union for gay tables than even at Kirkland House," Wall says, adding, "They're fresh out of high school." Ting says that this conservatism among freshman is to be expected and that he changed his own mind on many issues just by talking with upperclassmen...
...more formidable obstacle for many groups is the number of potential members who choose not be active in groups representing them. "A lot of Asians don't want to have anything to do with us," Ting says, adding, "A lot of them feel, 'my parents are making it, and I want to make it too,'" and worry only about their schoolwork and careers. Former American Indians at Harvard (AIH) president Charlene A very '82 says that in the past two years, when she served as co-president of AIH, she was continually coming up against what she called "computer Indians...
...Nonsmokers should avoid being in smoke-filled rooms." Since the 1964 report, almost 30 million people have managed to give up smoking. "Quitting 'cold turkey' appears to be a more effective strategy than cut ting down without trying to stop entirely," says the report. Surprisingly, 95% of the people who broke the smoking habit did so without the help of organized programs...